Clothes-drier



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CLOTHES DRIER.

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No. 593,797. Patented Nov, 16, 1897.

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CLOTHES- DRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 593,797, dated November 16, 1897.

' Application filed April 29, 189']. Serial No. 634,867. (No model.)

To all whom it ntcty concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M. BIDDLE, residing in Boston, in the county of Sufiolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvementin Olothes-Driers, of which the following'description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters and numerals on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to a clothes-drier of anovel construction, as will be described, whereby it may be permanently attached to a door or the wall of the kitchen or other room and may be turned or folded back against the said door or wall when not in use.

My invention has for its object to provide a simple and efficient substitute for the ordinary clothes-horse now commonly used, whereby substantially the same length of clothes-line-upon which to hang the clothes may be obtained with an apparatus which takes up substantially little space in the room when in its operative position and which can be folded back out of the way when in its inoperative position.

In accordance with this invention the clothes-drier is composed of two side frames or bars, each comprising a substantially horizontal member and an inclined member which extends from the outer end of the horizontal member to a point substantially in the same vertical plane as the inner end of the said horizontal member, and the inner ends of the said members are supported in brackets or hangers, so that the said side frames may be locked or rendered rigid in their operative position and yet may be turned toward each other into a position substantially parallel with the wall or door to which they are hung or attached when not in use. The inclined members of the side frames or bars may and preferably will be provided with suitable devices, preferably screw-eyes, through which the clothes-line is strung.

These and other features of this invention will be pointed out in the claims at the end of this specification.

Figure 1 represents in elevation a portion of a door provided with a clothes-drier embodying this invention the said drier being shown in its operative position; Fig. 2, a vertical section on the line 2 2, Fig. 1, looking toward the left; and Fig. 3, an elevation of the door and drier with the latter turned into its inoperative position.

Referring to the drawings, A represents a door in the kitchen or other room of ahouse to which my improved clothes-drier is attached, as will be described.

The clothes-drier referred to comprises two side frames A A (see Fig. 3) of like construction and each consisting of a substantially horizontal member Ct and a longer inclined member a, preferably made of metal and in one piece, the inclined member being made of a length sufficient to bring its inner end substantially in line with the inner end of the horizontal member. The side frames A A are attached to the door A, so as to be held rigid when in their operative position, (shown in Fig. 1,) but so as to be capable of being turned or folded toward each other into a position substantially parallel with the door when in their inoperative position, and this attachment may and preferably will be eftect ed by suitable hangers h b. v

The hanger h is preferably made as herein shown and comprises a tubular or hollow hub 2, provided with ears 3, and from which extends a substantially horizontal arm 4, provided with a groove 5 of a depth substantially equal to the diameter of the member a, so as to lock or hold the said member from turning laterally when the said member is fitted therein, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The hanger b is preferably made as herein shown and consists of a hollow hub 6, provided with ears 7, by which the said hanger may be secured to the door by screws 8.

The hanger b is secured to the door A by screws 9, and the hangers b b are located substantially in the same vertical plane. The side frames A A are preferably permanently secured to the hangers b b, which may be accomplished by providing the member a of each side frame with a substantially vertically and downwardly extended arm 10, which projects through and below the hub 2 and is of sufficient length to permit the member a to be lifted up out of the groove 5 without disengaging the arm 10 from the hanger in order to enable the side frame to be turned from the position shown in Fig. 2 to that shown in Fig. 3. The inclined member a is provided at its lower end with the straight portion 15, which extends through the hangerb and forms, with the inclined portion of the member a, a shoulder 16, (see Fig. 2,) which rests upon the upper edge of the hanger b and assists in supporting the side frame and the weight sustained thereby.

I prefer to lock the side frames A A to their hangers I) b,which may be accomplished, as herein shown, by upsetting the straight portions or arms 10 15 to form heads 17 18 larger than the bore of the hubs 2 G of the hangers.

The side frames A A may be secured to the door A or it may be to a wall of the kitchen or other room any desired distance apart, and the inclined member a of each side frame may and preferably will be provided with suitable devices, shown as screw-eyes e, for supporting the clothes-line c, which extends in horizontal sections from one side frame to the other, but in different vertical planes, as represented in Fig. 2, so as to obtain airspaccs or passages on opposite sides of the clothes 0, hung on each section of the line. If desired, the horizontal members a of the side frames may also be provided with screw-eyes connected by sections of line upon which small pieces of clothes maybe hung. In Figs. 1 and 2 the side frames are shown in their operative position and the sections of clothesline are substantially taut, and by reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the frames proj ect but a short distance from the wall or door A, and therefore take up but little space in the room and are furthermore located at one side or end of the room.

lVhen the clothes-drier is not in use, its side frames may be turn ed toward each other into a position substantially parallel with the door or wall A, as shown in Fig. 3, and to enable the said side frames to be thus turned they are raised until the members a have cleared the upper edge of the side walls of the groove 5, and when in this position they are free to be turned toward each other into the position shown in Fig. 3, and are supported in this latter position by the hangers b, and are substantially locked in their inoperative position by the members a, resting in a transverse recess or groove 20 (see Fig. 2) in the said hangers. The hangers b may and preferably will have interposed between them and the door or wall A cleats (I, which serve to carry the said hangers away from the door or wall a distance suilicient to permit the use of a screweye close to the lower end of the inclined member a.

I prefer to make each side frame of a metal rod in one piece; but I do not desire to limit my invention in this respect, as the members a a may be made separate and of the same or different materials.

In the present instance I have represented the clothes-line as a single piece extended through the eyes 0, attached to the inclined members a of the side frames, but it is evident that the sections of line connecting the inclined members a of the side frames may be separate sections or pieces.

I claim- 1. A clothes drier comprising two side fram es,each consisting of a substantially horizontal member a and an inclined member a extended from the horizontal member toward and substantially into a vertical line with the inner end of the said horizontal member, means to attach said side frames to a support, to enable the said side frames to be turned toward each other and lines connecting the inclined members of the side frames at different points in the length of said inclined members, substantially as described.

2. In a clothes-drier, a metallic side frame comprising a substantially horizontal memher a provided with a substantially vertical depending arm 10 at its inner end to form a pivot for the upper end of the said frame, a substantially long inclined member a integral with the member a and provided at its lower end with a substantially vertical arm 15 substantially in line with the arm 10 of the member a to form a pivot for the lower end of the side frame, and devices secured to the inclined member to which the clothes-line may be connected, substantially as described.

3. The combination with the hangers 1) provided with the hub 2 and grooved arm 4, and the hangers I) having the hub 0, of the side frames A A each comprising the substantially horizontal member at having an arm 10 extended into the hub of the hanger b, and an inclined member a having a substantially straight arm 15 extended into the hub of the hanger 1), devices 0 attached to the inclined members of the side frames, and 1ine-scctions connected to the said inclined members by the devices 0, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES M. BIDDLE.

lVitnesses:

J AS. H. CHURCHILL, J. MURPHY. 

